Saturday, February 4th, 2012 | Posted by Gavin Greene | No Comments
A recent statement by Electronic Arts lists Bioware’s upcoming RPG-Shooter Mass Effect 3 as having not only a console and PC release, but a mobile one as well. EA issued a follow up to that statement to Kotaku, stating that “There will be “handheld/mobile” products tied to Mass Effect 3…They are part of the Galaxy at War system. We will have more details to share soon.”.
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Wednesday, February 1st, 2012 | Posted by Robin Meijer | No Comments
Despite having downplayed rumors on the matter less than a month ago, Sony has issued a press release indicating that Kazuo Hirai will become the new president and CEO of Sony Corporation. On April 1st, Hirai will replace Sir Howard Stringer at the wheel of the electronics giant. Stringer will remain on as chairman and is expected to move to a new position as Chairman of the board following the shareholders meeting that will be held in June. Though he headed the multinational for over seven years, calls for the resignation of Sir Howard Stringer began to arise after the Playstation Network outage of 2011 and the ensuing legal repercussions.
Kazuo Hirai headed Sony Computer Entertainment of America for several years, before taking on positions within the Sony Corporation, the parent organization. He has been with the organization since 1995.
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Tuesday, January 31st, 2012 | Posted by Gavin Greene | 4 Comments
In an interview with VG247, Insomniac Games head Ted Price revealed that makers of the core trilogy of Resistance shooters were officially finished with the franchise. The Resistance franchise, while critically lauded, has never struck enough of a chord on shelves, Insomniac’s last game in the series – Resistance 3 - having consistently sold fewer units than its direct prequel. Despite the figures, the franchise will live on with other studios. The Vita-bound Resistance: Burning Skies is currently being handled by Nihilistic Software (Conan, Playstation Move Heroes).
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Monday, January 30th, 2012 | Posted by Robin Meijer | 3 Comments
Despite many rumors having circulated around the internet in recent weeks, representatives from Microsoft and Sony have stated that they are not looking to unveil new hardware at the upcoming E3, which is to be held in Los Angeles this June. More information is available after the jump.
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Thursday, January 26th, 2012 | Posted by Gavin Greene | 2 Comments
A limited series run of dolls has been announced by the BigBadToyStore, officially endorsed with Mass Effect 3 multiplayer downloadable content. The characters of Mordin Solus, Garrus Vakarin, Legion, and Miranda Lawson have all been transmogrified into figurines ranging from 6.7″-7.25″ tall. No specifics have been released concerning the DLC, but the site does hint that it could be “…powerful weapons…character bonuses, weapon modifications, [or] weapon upgrades to make your multi-player squad stronger”.
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Sunday, January 22nd, 2012 | Posted by Michael Hunter | No Comments
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim will likely be receiving patch 1.4 by the end of January, with Bethesda currently finalizing the updated and sending it off for console and PC certification this week. Bethesda also plans to roll out a “beta” opt-in for future patches for PC players, through Steam, most likely to avoid globally rolling out a faulty patch.
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Saturday, January 21st, 2012 | Posted by Gavin Greene | No Comments
In a game where you can create a tag team of a morbidly obese bearded man and a brown bear to fight a tag team of an equally obese non-bearded man and that guy from Infamous, non-traditional characters are expected. Even so, a recent trailer for Street Fighter x Tekken teases some pretty unconventional entrants from both Capcom and Namco Bandai’s catalog.
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 | Posted by Robin Meijer | 1 Comment
A recently launched viral website known as Nohopeleft.com, has been publishing images from around the globe featuring bioharzard symbols, the text “No hope left”, and an ominous date of January 19th, 2012. IGN reports that the website is most likely associated with Resident Evil 6, which has not yet been officially announced by Capcom. The website is owned by the organization that also operated a website that is part of the marketing campaign for Resident Evil: Raccoon City.
Though Capcom has denied to comment on the speculations, The Sixth Axis reports that it inquired with the agency that owns one of the ‘No hope left’ billboards in London and was informed that the advertiser is in fact Capcom.
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Wednesday, January 11th, 2012 | Posted by Gavin Greene | 1 Comment
Square Enix has announced that it has acquired the rights to make a platformer based on the independent graphic novel “ScaryGirl” by Nathan Jurevicius. Developed by TikGames (Ricochet, Texas Hold ‘Em on Xbox Live Arcade), the game of the same name will launch on January 18th on XBLA, the 24th on PSN, and sometime later for the PC. ScaryGirl will retain the series’ art style and aesthetics, but tell a supplemental story from the graphic novels and the upcoming film.
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Tuesday, January 10th, 2012 | Posted by Robin Meijer | 2 Comments
Though Blizzard has publicly stated it was exploring its options regarding a possible console version of Diablo III, this version has never officially been confirmed to be in production. However, in response to a question by a user on Twitter, the community manager for Blizzard confirmed that a console version is currently in the works. The project is headed by Josh Mosqueira, previously the Creative Director for Far Cry 3 and a former Design Director at Relic Entertainment. No further information is available at this time, though Blizzard previously indicated that if a console version were ever to be made, the release of the PC version would not be held back to facilitate a simultaneous release.
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Monday, January 9th, 2012 | Posted by Robin Meijer | No Comments
Speaking to Joystiq, Konami has confirmed that the Silent Hill HD Collection, which features Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hill 3, is now scheduled for a release in March. The collection was actually scheduled for a release on the 24th of January, but major retailers informed consumers who had pre-ordered the title that they expected launch date had shifted to March 6th. Though Konami has confirmed that the release date has moved, it has not yet made an official state on the specific date on which the game will hit the shelves.
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Thursday, January 5th, 2012 | Posted by Gavin Greene | No Comments
In a fan newsletter, first spotted by fan news-site Stitch Kingdom, a sequel to the Wii’s Epic Mickey is on track for a 2012 release. Last we heard of a possible follow-up to the painting-platformer was in a focus group survey released by Disney last August (thanks Joystiq), where it was strongly hinted that Epic Mickey 2 could come to the Xbox 360 and PS3, and with a new co-operative campaign. Disney has confirmed neither the new features to Mickey nor the game itself.
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Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012 | Posted by Robin Meijer | No Comments
With multiple rumors having surfaced in recent weeks regarding a potential fourth installment of the God of War series, Siliconera has uncovered that composer Timothy Williams (Conan the Barbarian, DotA 2, Rise of the Argonauts, Army of Two: The 40th Day) lists God of War IV as one of his upcoming projects in his resume. A fourth installment in the series has not yet been confirmed by Sony or SCE Santa Monica Studio, the studio behind the earlier episodes in the franchise. Though the third installment in the series did conclude the original story-arch, the former studio director at Santa Monica Studio stated early 2010 that it would not end the franchise.
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2011 | Posted by Robin Meijer | No Comments
Capcom has issued a press release earlier today indicating that the Devil May Cry HD Collection, which contains HD-remakes of the first three installments in the franchise, will be released in North America and Europe on April 3rd, 2012. The remakes will be available at $39.99 for both Playstation 3 and Xbox 360, and feature content that was not included in the original releases.
The HD remakes to the first three installments in the Devil May Cry franchise were announced last October.
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2011 | Posted by Gavin Greene | No Comments
Naughty Dog’s new IP, which made a big splash earlier this month with its full debut trailer at the Spike Video Game Awards, was originally supposed to be a summer reveal. The Last of Us was originally scheduled as part of Sony’s E3 showing, but according to a recent Eurogamer interview, an iPad that contained the debut reel was forgotten on a plane by the game’s creative director, Neil Druckmann.
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